A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speared Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 0 7.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences50 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of speared in Corpus

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Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Are the Sangsters nae comin?" speared Nava. "We need aabody gin we'
"An Pranny?" aa the bairns speared.
ude Anderson guttin here?" he speared o a lassie packin ten tae the
3 matches

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
moo! I jist lookit at her an speared if a wid still need tae turn
1 matches

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ell o’ mince and tatties. A speared if it wid be ok if Dexter sta
1 matches

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